Yes, that resembles a now-famous suggestion by a Nobel Prizewinner with respect to psychological research: http://www.nature.com/news/nobel-laureate-challenges

Yes, that resembles a now-famous suggestion by a Nobel Prizewinner with respect to psychological research: http://www.nature.com/news/nobel-laureate-challenges-psychologists-to-clean-up-their-act-1.11535 http://www.nature.com/news/nobel-laureate-challenges-psychol... Title: "Nobel laureate challenges psychologists to clean up their act" Quote: "For all these reasons, right or wrong, your field is now the poster child for doubts about the integrity of psychological research. Your problem is not with the few people who have actively challenged the validity of some priming results. It is with the much larger population of colleagues who in the past accepted your surprising results as facts when they were published. ... My reason for writing this letter is that I see a train wreck looming."